Were these stone? I was under the impression that these tablets were soft clay when first scribed and hardened either through a firing process or just over centuries of sitting around.

I’ve also seen videos of the guys scribing in Cuneiform, it looks like it could be done relatively quickly.

Former worker on parents’ hobby farm. Can confirm that this is every type of healthy goat shit.

It immediately demonstrates a lack of both care and understanding of the scientific process.

No way I find this stuff in the Sahara. Maybe death valley, but I doubt it! And don’t @ me if you think this stuff’s in the Antarctic or Arctic.

I mean, yes, that’s how it would work if there were an infinite number of atoms in the piece. There’s a finite amount, though, so eventually there will be a point when all the atoms have completely decayed.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

We can’t really prove that MAD has worked without seeing what would have happened if we hadn’t done MAD.

I’d argue that without MAD, the cold war might not have happened, which could have avoided a massive number of conflicts.

Careful with the noble savage fallacy. Europe was constantly ravaged by disease due to animal domestication, in ways the Americas were not. Many Native American civilizations created insane mathematical, ecological, and civil wonders during their existences. They 100% would have used double-blind studies if they had any major reason to advance medicine prior to Europeans bringing plagues.

The title is the punchline. Magnets move things with their fields, the magnet itself doesn’t need to apply force on the things it moves. ‘work’ is a physics term for applying a force over a distance.

That’s fair, though I think we also should thank the use of Travelling Wave Tubes (TWTs or ‘twits’). These little tubes of witchcraft amplify the transmission signal to make sure we can still hear, say, the Voyager 1 that’s currently over 15-billion miles away.